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Practicing for Preschool – No Fooling!

Having read a couple (dozen) articles on homeschooling while pregnant with that face, I was quickly persuaded that homeschooling was a strong possibility for the early elementary years at our house.

Getting a bit ahead of myself, you say? Yeah, well. It’s certainly not the first time.

Now that we’re more three months into speech therapy, conversations with the pros (Hi, Jen!) have changed my mind about preschool, at least. Preschool resolves the lack of interaction with his peers, which (coupled with continued proximity to the pros) should speed his speech development along faster and better than I can do at home alone.

I cannot take credit for this hair. That’s 100% Dad’s contribution. (Genes are weird, dude.)

You may find this hard to believe, but even I cannot talk that much.

So even though it is still many moons away, in preparation for preschool we’ve begun attending a couple of playgroup times at the local elementary school.

I can tell you the first day did not start off well; I’m very glad we started practicing for this six months in advance. It took us more than thirty minutes just to get in the classroom door.

Nothing wrong with kiddo’s pipes, that’s for sure. (Pretty sure that part does come from me.)

We’ll keep practicing, though. First day is always the hardest, right?

Right?

We’ve also been practicing some of the activities at home, specifically sensory playtime. Mom decided to start with rolled oats (mainly because we already had them in the house).

Sensory playtime was a hit.

He played like this for nearly forty-five consecutive minutes. Like, in the same spot in the room. Without hardly moving. Forty-five minutes.

Unfortunately, the purpose of this exercise was to practice keeping the messy stuff in the big container, like we’re supposed to do at ‘school’.

As you can see, we need to practice some more.

(For some of the other home-preschool activities we’re working on these days, check out the Kid Stuff and Kid Learning boards on my Pinterest page!)

We weren’t really in town to sightsee, but after a long-enough drive somebody needed to stretch his ever-growing legs. I can tell you that Rice Lake has one of the nicest Veterans Memorial Parks I have ever had the privilege to visit!

Of course, Nolan – as always – preferred the picnic tables.

Maybe we should get one for the backyard.

Are you all enjoying your spring? I’m missing our garden back home already. Hope your April is off to a good start!

5 thoughts on “Practicing for Preschool – No Fooling!”

This picture of him exploring the sensory bin really shows how much learning can come from them! If you are brave enough to do it again, I use this link with my preschoolers which provides a lot of different ideas of what to put in the bin! It is messy though.. you have been forwarned ;) http://yourkidstable.com/2012/06/ultimate-list-of-sensory-bin-ideas.html